Purpose kindles the flame of ambition on the alter of the heart and inspires the soul to all worthy endeavor.  A presiding purpose conserves energy.  An aimless man is guilty of the worst kind of waste. …

A presiding purpose not only conserves energy, but it inspires to action.  Purpose is power, motive power.  It is like a lever in mechanics.  It is like the pressure of steam in an engine.  It moves the machinery and puts it into action.  There is more hope of a man with a bad purpose than of one with no purpose at all.  The difference between them is the difference between a mountain stream lunging, plunging, over rugged rocks, down deep precipices into the chasms beneath, and the stagnant pond without inlet or outlet, breeding poison and bound for nowhere.  You can control the mountain stream and with it turn a desert into a garden, but the stagnant pool will remain a breeder of disease and death. …

A man with a purpose finds nothing so hard as doing nothing.  Action with him is normal, and work is his truest rest.  A man without a purpose is like a body of death across the path of progress.  He is an incubus of dead weight, hanging heavily upon society.

– M. T. Andrews, Baptist Standard, Dallas, TX, January 19, 1928

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